Bill Causey

Author of The Unsung Hero of the Apollo Moon Landings (Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics)

[Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @AndySaunders_1]

...and back in the 60's, folk would do anything to hitch a ride to the Moon...

[Gavin Price @pilliarscreatio]

Grumman were instructed by NASA to build a LM where no single point failure would endanger the crew. This was achieved through redundant / backup systems.
However there was one primary system which couldn’t really have a backup - the Ascent Propulsion System / APS.

[Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @AndySaunders_1]

What a truly epic shot of the brand new rocket capable of sending humans back to the Moon.

[Chasing The Moon: The Book @ChasingMoonBk]

September 25, 1969: Wernher von Braun strolls through a simulated Apollo 11 moon landing site at Atlanta’s Southeastern Fair.

[Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @AndySaunders_1]

Born #OTD in 1930 - the 'astronaut's astronaut', John Young.
Here he is on the Moon, during Apollo 16, inspecting his Moon dust brush - all future Moon voyagers will need one!

Newly recovered from high resolution scan of Hasselblad 70mm flight film.
#ApolloRemastered #NASA

[Gavin Price @pilliarscreatio]

Zoom in on Cernan’s visor!

[Gavin Price @pilliarscreatio]

The F-1 was so powerful it blew its nozzle extension off!

[Gavin Price @pilliarscreatio]

Next time you visit a LM look out for the running lights that are placed across its body. These lights were copied from aircraft coding at the time and they helped determine a vehicles altitude and attitude with respect to a vehicle to which it would dock.

[Cleveland Park Main Street @CleParkMainStDC]

At a recent Tuesday Talk, we were “over the moon” to have Woodley Park’s @ApolloAuthor discuss his book about an “unsung” hero of the Apollo moon-landing missions. https://t.co/Wau4OXkMPW

[George Leopold @gleopold1]

@ApolloAuthor

[Gavin Price @pilliarscreatio]

Rendezvous of the Apollo LM & CSM. I love this image of Al Worden looking at Falcon. In the picture you can see that the EVA floodlight is extended, just in case an emergency EVA transfer needs to be conducted.

[George Leopold @gleopold1]

@ApolloAuthor

[Michael Collins @AstroMCollins]

I really liked the Gemini program and got to fly with one of the best in John Young.

[George Leopold @gleopold1]

The definitive account of LOR and Houbolt is here: https://t.co/tXwOVHSjRC @ApolloAuthor

[Chasing The Moon: The Book @ChasingMoonBk]

March 24, 1950: A book editor at Doubleday writes Wernher von Braun rejecting his novel The Mars Project. “It’s a perfectly fascinating book—but not…a salable novel…There isn’t much story there…The only thing I can think of that we could do with it is build a rocket ship.”

[Politics and Prose @PoliticsProse]

On March 15, @ApolloAuthor discusses the unsung hero of the Apollo moon landings in JOHN HOUBOLT

https://t.co/MTm4M7Jbrd

[George Leopold @gleopold1]

Bill Causey @ApolloAuthor introduces his definitive bio of John Houbolt, the persevering #NASA engineer who figured out how to put human beings on the moon by the end of the 1960s -- and bring them back! @PurduePress #Apollo

[Bryan Shaffer @bryanshaffer]

@goodreads New book released this past Sunday by @ApolloAuthor at @PoliticsProse on NASA engineer John Houbolt. Great read, no time like the present to #ReadUP. https://t.co/o3D52YTCTq